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What is VMware Snapshot?

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Another post today to our “definition” category, which starts to gain some momentum. The idea behind is to give a basic explanation on VMware technologies and how things work. We always thought that writing technical posts is enough to be successful as a blogger, but we were wrong. Our recent non-technical post What is The Difference […]

PaaS, Saas or IaaS, Which one is for you?

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In this post, I’d like to detail some thoughts about today’s popular cloud computing models allowing you to externalize your IT to the cloud. PaaS, Saas or IaaS. Not all cloud models are the same. Some propose just to access the same applications which you were running previously in your datacenter, from an online cloud […]

What’s New in vSphere 6.5 – New Training Course from PluralSight

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There is a new training course available at Pluralsight with as a topic What’s new in vSphere 6.5. The author is Josh Coen (@joshcoen), a VCDX certified, cloud architect, working for Sirius Computer Solutions, a national systems integrator. Josh has been working in the industry for 15 years, specifically with virtualization and storage. Readers of […]

Horizon 7.1 New Features and Enhancements

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VMware Horizon View 7.1 a new release from VMware. This is another big release as far as I can say. Many new features and enhancements did made it in in all areas, not only for the client part, but also for the server (Support for Windows Server 2016), platform, protocol parts. In this post, we […]

What is VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)

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I know many of you know what that is, but this post is targeting people who do not or know a little bit, but they’re not sure if what they know is enough. If you’re an experienced VMware admin you won’t find probably anything you don’t already know. VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) is a […]

What is The Difference between VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter

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This post is not a deep dive, and it’s not even much technical. We’ll focus on VMware terminology. It’ is just a quick post for folks unsure about the differences between the base VMware products. Almost anyone knows ESXi, but the difference between vSphere and vCenter? People are often confused and unsure, but those answers […]

What is VMware vMotion?

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What is VMware vMotion? It is THE feature, the function, which “hooked” thousands of millions IT guys on the plane for using VMware for their IT infrastructure. It is kind of a holy grail of virtualization where a running VM moves to another host without interruption of service (of with just a few pings lost). I still […]

Starwind Web Management Console and vSphere Plugin

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Over the past several months Starwind was working on web-based management console for their flagship product Starwind Virtual SAN and also on vSphere plugin allowing to manage the whole storage solution from within vSphere Web Client. So in today’s post, we’ll report on those two management products from Starwind. Note that they’re also working on […]